ATTRIBUTED TO BERNHARD KEIL, CALLED MONSÙ BERNARDO (HELSINGÖR 1624-1687 ROME)
ATTRIBUTED TO BERNHARD KEIL, CALLED MONSÙ BERNARDO (HELSINGÖR 1624-1687 ROME)
ATTRIBUTED TO BERNHARD KEIL, CALLED MONSÙ BERNARDO (HELSINGÖR 1624-1687 ROME)
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ATTRIBUTED TO BERNHARD KEIL, CALLED MONSÙ BERNARDO (HELSINGÖR 1624-1687 ROME)

A huntsman resting by a tree with a hound, chickens and other birds

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ATTRIBUTED TO BERNHARD KEIL, CALLED MONSÙ BERNARDO (HELSINGÖR 1624-1687 ROME)
A huntsman resting by a tree with a hound, chickens and other birds
oil on canvas
62 x 72 3/4 in. (157.2 x 184.8 cm.)
Provenance
HRH Princess Christina of the Netherlands; her sale, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 19 November 1996, lot 60, where acquired by the present owner.
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Lot Essay

Bernard Keil was apprenticed to the Copenhagen court painter, Maarten van Steenwinckel, before entering the Amsterdam workshop of Rembrandt van Rijn in 1642, where he remained for two years. His encounter with Rembrandt would shape much of his early technique. On travelling to Italy in 1651, he received a large number of commissions for portraits, religious pictures, bambocciate and palace and church interiors. The influence of Bernardo Strozzi, Domenico Fetti and Giovanni Battista Langetti is discernible in the works produced throughout his Italian years.

The huntsman in the present composition would appear to be the prototype for a number of almost identical figures in works by Keil, such as the picture sold in these Rooms on 13 January 1987, lot 104.

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